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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1918		19,939/34,659	57.53
Edward Hopkinson	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,285	61.61
John Edward Sutton	Labour Party	7,654	38.39
Majority		4,631	23.23

15 January 1922 Death of Edward Hopkinson.

18 February 1922		25,700/34,851	73.74
John Edward Sutton	Labour Party	14,662	57.05
William Henry Flanagan	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,038	42.95
Majority		3,624	14.10

15 November 1922		29,589/35,681	82.93
William Henry Flanagan	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,800	50.02
John Edward Sutton	Labour Party	14,789	49.98
Majority		11	0.04

6 December 1923		30,419/36,430	83.50
John Edward Sutton	Labour Party	17,255	56.72
William Henry Flanagan	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,164	43.28
Majority		4,091	13.45

29 October 1924		31,972/37,729	84.74
John Edward Sutton	Labour Party	17,338	54.23
Thomas Edward Thorpe	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,634	45.77
Majority		2,704	8.46

30 May 1929		38,372/46,177	83.10
John Edward Sutton	Labour Party	21,103	55.00
William Henry Flanagan	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,062	36.65
Charles Harold Travis	Liberal Party	3,207	8.36
Majority		7,041	18.35

27 October 1931		39,241/47,038	83.42
William Henry Flanagan	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,072	56.25
John Edward Sutton	Labour Party	17,169	43.75
Majority		4,903	12.49

14 November 1935		35,782/46,475	76.99
John Jagger	Labour Party	19,225	53.73
Thomas Henry Hewlett	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,557	46.27
Majority		2,668	7.46

9 July 1942 Death of John Jagger.

17 October 1942		9,528/45,720	20.84
Harry Thorneycroft	Labour Party	8,892	93.32
E H Foot	Independent	636	6.68
Majority		8,256	86.65

5 July 1945		32,284/46,394	69.59
Harry Thorneycroft	Labour Party	22,401	69.39
Philip Smith	National Liberal Party	9,883	30.61
Majority		12,518	38.77

Boundary Change
23 February 1950		46,223/55,859	82.75
Harry Thorneycroft	Labour Party	29,128	63.02
Derek Hilliard Broome	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,800	32.02
Herbert Walls	Liberal Party	2,295	4.97
Majority		14,328	31.00

25 October 1951		44,107/56,126	78.59
Harry Thorneycroft	Labour Party	27,985	63.45
Marjorie Stewart Grant	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,122	36.55
Majority		11,863	26.90